The artist will recreate one of his best-known works in Brooklyn Bridge Park to coincide with his retrospective at the Met Breuer.
The star of 'Counterpart' and 'Hotel Mumbai' on representing Middle Eastern women on- and offscreen.
Al-Kindi, the great Muslim philosopher once said, “One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the...
Omar Khayyam may have famously wanted just ‘a loaf of bread, a flask of wine, a book of verse – and thou’ but Persian culture...
Writing and directing a suspense thriller that explores complex family dynamics is not an easy undertaking. Imagine doing it in a foreign language and country.
I think February is the perfect month to highlight contemporary artist Ali Sabet. Ali is known for incorporating his unique “love script” into his paintings....
The Iranian cinema has already won a world-class reputation. Now, it's getting a wider American audience at the first Iranian Film Festival being held in...
The year was 1976. Sohrab Shahid Sales released, Reifezeit (Coming of age), a film about ‘the everyday life of a boy living with his prostitute...
Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan’s six-episode series “The Bisexual” debuted on Hulu in November with surprisingly little to no fanfare.
Adventurous and adorable kids give us an entree into the world’s array of foods and snacks.
Iran claims to be the birthplace of ice cream, but how could it be made 2,000 years ago? The Travel Show visits an underground space used to...
In recent news, Hollywood is acting upset at the decision to pull US troops from Syria. Perhaps, instead of US troops, Hollywood should send Chuck...
Desiree Akhavan’s nuanced show about a lesbian who comes out as bi explores how we all can become our true selves through sex. “Sex is complicated,” Leila, the Iranian-American hero of Hulu’s The Bisexual, tells her best friend Deniz in the show’s premiere episode.
Consider a conversation between long-time Middle East reporter Reese Erlich and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, Jr. on the people currently directing...
The Arabic word habibi means "my love," an apt descriptor for Rahill Jamalifard's feelings about her Iranian upbringing and the music she creates. Jamalifard is the frontwoman...
Shadow play, or shadow puppetry, is an ancient art form that started in China, which explains why “Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic” is currently...
Everybody loves Rumi, and lucky us, he's one of our own! The 13th century Persian poet, who was an Islamic dervish, a Sufi mystic and...
In Tehran, Hormoz Hematian’s gallery was thriving. Domestic and international collectors were buying works by his local artists. When Donald Trump tore up the Iran deal, those prospects began to dim.
Freddie Mercury's sister, Kashmira Cooke, talks about the pride that Freddie (born Farrokh Bulsara) felt towards his Persian roots. Related: https://iranian.com/2018/11/08/freddie-mercury-zoroastrianism/
Ali Dorani was 21 when he arrived at Australia’s Christmas Island by boat seeking asylum, on July 2013. After six months, he was transferred to Manus Island, Australia’s offshore...
Nostalgia fills many immigrants who have left their native country. That feeling is familiar for numerous Persians who fled Iran immediately after the 1979 revolution...
In the last century, not a decade has gone by without some proclamation of the West’s demise. But one thing sets today’s warnings apart: in...
The second annual Chefs Without Borders, a collaboration between Tom Douglas Kitchens and the Seattle Isfahan Sister City Advocacy (SISCA), will be held November 1,...
Thirty years after the end of Iran’s “War of Sacred Defense” Iran’s “military parades” are attacked, but the world still doesn’t really comprehend exactly what...
Ed Husain’s latest book, The House of Islam, A Global History, is an honest and informative writing about the past and current state of Muslims in the...
Since the late fall of 2016, Democrats and other Leftist types have been decrying President Donald J. Trump as “not normal” and a “threat to...
The Plot to Attack Iran gives a readable and well- referenced look at Western — especially US — abuse of Iran. The author and human rights...
Fernando Pessoa was born in Portugal in 1888. A year before he died, Message, was published. It was a patriotic collection of poems in three...
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